Globalization

An incisive analysis of the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa.

Gestörte Lieferketten, Flucht und Migration, Kritik an »kosmopolitischen Eliten«: Auseinandersetzungen über Globalisierung und neuerdings auch Deglobalisierung haben Konjunktur.

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.

Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape and are shaped by the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.

This book delves into the intricate interplay between climate change and the dynamic shifts in global power structures, focusing on the expanded BRICS.

The United Nations in the 21st Century, Sixth Edition, provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the UN.

We've all been tourists at some point in our lives.

Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides a clear and incisive analysis of the different perspectives of the global response to HIV/AIDS, and the role of the different global institutions involved.

Considering the rise of global political instability and subsequent importance of new social movements, this cutting edge book examines the relationship between the alter-globalization movement and political power in Italy, Spain, and Greece.

Over the last century and a half, manners and formalities in the West have become less status-ridden, stiff and rigid.

This book offers a significant contribution to the globalization debate, and examines the complexities surrounding modern globalization.

This book brings together for the first time a large collection of essays (including three new ones) of a leading writer on diplomacy.

This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how, and under what circumstances some are more welcoming than others, exploring the importance of transgressive cosmopolitanism as a basis for creating more inclusive and pluralistic societies.

Living the Global City (1996) was a landmark text in the field of Global Studies, offering an analysis of globalization and global/local processes by focussing on specific issues and themes which include community, culture, milieu, socioscapes and sociospheres, microglobalization, poverty, ethnic identity and carnival.

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent's trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system.

In his reflections on decolonization and post-development, Gustavo Esteva forged a unique synthesis of critical theory and political economy.

Global media and advances in technology have profoundly affected the way people experience events.

This book examines the role of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) in public and scholarly discussions of the meaning of the Anthropocene proposal.

This book discusses contemporary constellations of international politics and global transformation.

This book explores the nature of liberal property in the twenty-first century.

This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957.

This book, at the nexus of migration and urban studies, sheds new light on a long-neglected group of transmigrants and the global city of Tokyo.

This edited book is written by six authors from Asia and Africa.

The 49th parallel has long held a symbolic importance to Canadian cultural nationalists as a strong, though permeable, border.

Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees from India and Sri Lanka to Montreal, Quebec in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Europe is stumbling from crisis to crisis.

Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.

Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas.

In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization has found itself increasingly under the microscope.

Pre-crime aims to pre-empt 'would-be-criminals' and predict future crime.

What is globalization anyway?

This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition.

This book seeks to counter the recent trend of speculation about the impact of globalization upon welfare states.

Renowned author Ulrike Schuerkens presents an in-depth exploration of social transformations and developments.

This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context.

This volume brings together marginalized perspectives and communities into the mainstream discourse on education for sustainable development and global citizenship.

In the 1990s, the "e;knowledge economy"e; was hailed by policy-makers in developed democracies as an antidote to the anxieties arising from the era of market liberalization - an era characterized by the decline of skilled blue-collar work, increasing levels of social exclusion and widening regional inequality.

The volume aims at providing a comprehensive understanding of comparative political communication.

This two-volume handbook provides readers with a comprehensive interpretation of globality through the multifaceted prism of the humanities and social sciences.

Today, when "e;globalization"e; is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments.

Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them.

This book outlines the possibilities and perspectives of an intertwining of European integration historiography with the history and concept of capitalism.

This book provides a robust theoretical and empirical exploration of the interrelationship between economic neoliberalism and international development.

The book examines contemporary globalisation, which signifies a growing interconnectedness between people and societies across the world through increasing flows of people, goods, services, finance, and ideas across the borders.

This book narrates the integration of consumer culture into transnational human rights advocacy and explores its political impact.

Brazils soft power path to major power status.

This book brings together up-to-date research from prominent international scholars in a collaborative exploration of the Japan's efforts to shape Asia's rapidly shifting regional order.